1. Advancing eCR Standards through FHIR
John Loonsk
Laura Conn
Eric Haas
Rick Geimer
Sarah Gaunt
Vanitha Khetan
Erin Holt
Rashmi Gupta
Kimberly Glenn

2. FHIR Public Health Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) - Project Scope
Public Health electronic case reporting (eCR) is the principally automated, bi- directional exchange of information between clinical care and public health in the context of reportable conditions
This project will build off of the C-CDA STU Public Health Case Report standards to support a number of activities related to electronic case reporting (eCR) through appropriate FHIR representations
Reporting, investigation, and management - electronic transmission of clinical data from Electronic Health Records to Public Health – including;
the existing “electronic Initial Case Report (eICR)” Version 1.1
(Based on data set identified by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists)
The “Reportability Response” (anticipated publication fall of 2017)
new eICR data from all EHRs, pushed and pulled, non-eICR, condition specific EHR data, supplemental data not found in EHRs.
The management and processing of population cases including potentially a population FHIR case resource

3. FHIR Public Health Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) - Project Scope
Bi-directional information exchange – the response to the eICR including the delivery of relevant public health information in the context of the patient and their possible relevant conditions – including the Reportability Response transaction
Triggering / decision support – the automated initiation of an initial report in Electronic Health Records based on public health specifications and logic as well as clinical care factors. The specification of simple logic “triggers” and a pathway to more complex logic distribution. Including the workflow tie-in opportunity for contextualized public health information.
As with the initial electronic case report, the project will strive to minimize reporting burden and use data that are established to exist in EHRs as a product of care. It will, whenever possible, use existing FHIR resources so as to constitute data that can be readily produced and delivered by EHRs.
The strategy for development undertaken by this project includes the use of a US Realm Standard for Trial Use (STU) for actual development and deployment. Following the STU period, for a period of two years, a Normative standard will be balloted. It will also include the pursuit of a universal Population FHIR Case Resource and the specification of documents, value sets, extensions and other resources as necessary to support these activities.